Genesis 10:16
16 Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
Other Translations of Genesis 10:16
King James Version
16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
English Standard Version
16 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
The Message
16 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
New King James Version
16 the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite;
New Living Translation
16 Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 10:16
Commentary on Genesis 10:15-32
(Read Genesis 10:15-32)
The posterity of Canaan were numerous, rich, and pleasantly seated; yet Canaan was under a Divine curse, and not a curse causeless. Those that are under the curse of God, may, perhaps, thrive and prosper in this world; for we cannot know love or hatred, the blessing or the curse, by what is before us, but by what is within us. The curse of God always works really, and always terribly. Perhaps it is a secret curse, a curse to the soul, and does not work so that others can see it; or a slow curse, and does not work soon; but sinners are reserved by it for a day of wrath Canaan here has a better land than either Shem or Japheth, and yet they have a better lot, for they inherit the blessing. Abram and his seed, God's covenant people, descended from Eber, and from him were called Hebrews. How much better it is to be like Eber, the father of a family of saints and honest men, than the father of a family of hunters after power, worldly wealth, or vanities. Goodness is true greatness.